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SARASOTA, Fla. -- The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) hosted a meeting Thursday night to discuss plans for the interchange at University Parkway and I-75. The public hearing is part of an effort to inform the community about the design being considered for the area. It’s called a “diverging diamond,” and this will be the first time it will be used in the state.
"Traffic here can be really bad," says Mark Fasel, one of the thousands of area residents who frequent the retail stores along University and I-75.
"It can be backed up 45 minutes just to get off the interstate 5 miles away,” he says. “And with the new mall coming in, I think that it’s going to be even more intense."
Fasel isn't alone in his fears.
"Going forward it’s going to be a nightmare,” says Sarasota resident Leslie Emery. “They should have put in the road systems way before they allotted the permits for the big mall."
But FDOT say the proposed diverging diamond traffic pattern will help ease congestion.
"This diverging diamond is extremely efficient, it will move traffic," says Robin Stublen, FDOT’s communications specialist. "The design engineers prefer these diverging diamonds because they take up less right-of-way space."
Stublen says that because developments in that area go right up the current interchange, the divergent diamond is the best option. FDOT even has plans to use the design at other Sarasota intersections.
"We'll be working on one at Clark Road, possible one at Fruitville Road, and we think we're going to have a hybrid version of the diverging diamond at Bee Ridge Road," Stublen says.
So far the projects are still in the design phase, and funding has yet to be allotted for construction -- details that have many residents concerned.
"I’m very skeptical; I really am worried about how this is going to work for this area," said resident Leslie Emery.
"We're not paying taxes to have debacles like this in the center of the state,” says Sarasota resident Richard Bottorff. “Hearing that this might be the busiest intersection on 75 in the state of Florida, I do have some future concerns for it."


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On Thursday, Kohl's Corp. (NYSE: KSS) announced its financial results for the first quarter ended April 29, 2017. Shares of the company increased 1% in early trading Thursday.
According to the company, net sales decreased from $3.97 billion the same period last year to $3.84 billion in the first quarter, which was declining for the fifth straight quarter, and missed estimates of $3.90 billion. Net income was up from $17 million, or $0.09 per share the same period last year to $66 million, or $0.39 per share, beating estimates of $0.29 per share.
Excluding certain items, profit of the company was up 14% in the first quarter, which was partly motivated by the higher traffic in stores in March and April.
“We are encouraged by the significant improvement in sales and traffic for the March and April period, after a weak February start to the first quarter,” Kevin Mansell, the chairman, chief executive officer and president of Kohl's, said in the statement.
“Continued strong inventory management led to a major improvement in gross margin, and our teams managed expenses exceptionally well. I am pleased to say that combined together these efforts led to an increase in income for the period,” he said.

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If you've seen those weight-loss adverts on TV or in magazines promising dramatic weight loss in only days, you've probably wondered whether these diets really work.
False or misleading claims are common in weight-loss advertising, though a quick glance through magazines and television channels indicates that quick-fix weight-loss advertising is flourishing.
In a four-month study of more than 300 weight-loss programme promotions in the USA, nearly 40% of the advertisements made at least one false claim, according to a report issued by the Federal Trade Commission at a press conference in Washington, DC.
More than half of the ads made claims that lacked substantiation of their promises, including testimonials by consumers that were false or impossible to verify, programmes excluding dieting and exercise, and before-and-after photographs where the head of an overweight person was superimposed on a slim body.
At a time when obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in the Western world, false hopes are being raised in consumers desperate to lose weight.
But claims that seem too good to be true – such as losing 19kg in just three weeks or losing weight without dieting or exercise – usually are.
Despite what the ads say, the only way to lose fat is to consume fewer kilojoules per day than your body needs.
According to American Institute of Medicine dietary guidelines, an adult woman between the ages of 18 and 50 years, requires between 6 700 and 10 500 kJ per day, depending on her height and level of activity.
Men need between 8 000 and 13 800 kJ a day, depending on their height and level of activity.
Theoretically, to lose 500g per week, the body needs 2 000 kJ less per day. So to lose 1kg of fat, the body has to burn off 32 200 kJ.
To lose 19kg in three weeks, you would need to lose over 6kg a week, or almost 1kg per day. So the body would have to burn off 32 200 kJ per day. The only way to do that would be to eat nothing and run for six hours a day, or do high-impact aerobics for 13 hours a day, for 21 days.
Take claims with a pinch of salt
The report is not aimed at medically proven weight-loss programmes addressing lifestyle, behaviour, exercise and nutrition, but rather unsubstantiated claims of quick weight-loss programmes that say diet and exercise are not important.
"There's no such thing as a miracle pill for weight loss," American Surgeon General Richard Carmona told the press conference. "The surest and safest way to weight loss and healthier living is by combining healthy eating and exercising."
– (Charmaine Horne, Health24, updated June 2008)


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South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty hard.
South by Southwest Interactive is such a massive technology conference with so much activity and many ideas being thrown around at once that it can be hard to give an overall feel for the Austin, Texas, extravaganza using just words.
At 2:46 Monday afternoon, Japan went quiet.
Facebook unveils a radically new design for news feed, which includes new streams for photos, news, music and more.
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Facebook's Graph Search could be a powerful tool for steering people toward products and services on the social networking site, and marketers are starting to wrestle with the impact it may have on their brands.
Brooklyn-based Sprezzat wants to modernize caller ID for people's smartphones with a little help from Twitter and Facebook.
Millions around the world begin their online day by checking out Facebook's News Feed. But what they see there is about to change. Facebook announced a major overhaul to the News Feed feature at a much-hyped press event at the social networking giant...
This year's South by Southwest Interactive will play host to tech trends in areas as diverse as gaming, artificial intelligence, 3D printing and social networking, but whether the next Twitter will emerge at the conference is harder to say.
Facebook is giving its billion users a completely new way to look at its site.
Professional social networking service LinkedIn won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of premium users who had their log-in passwords exposed as a result of a security breach of the company's servers last year.
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Facebook is working to set the record straight following a report suggesting that the site is gaming its News Feed so that people who pay to promote their posts will get more interaction from users than those who don't.
After spending the past six months talking about prioritizing its business around mobile platforms, Facebook says it's time to get down to business.
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A hip hotel brand is breaking into the downtown Atlanta market, a sign of growing confidence in an area that draws millions of tourists a year.
The 263-room Days Inn Atlanta Downtown will become an Aloft hotel — a contemporary, limited-service brand from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: HOT).
Banyan Investment Group, in partnership with DeBartolo Development LLC, in late July purchased the Days Inn at 300 Spring St. for an undisclosed amount. The team plans to pour around $25 million into the 3.1-acre property. They hope to reopen it as a 242-room Aloft in summer 2013.
“Our goal is to bring an element of energy to the entire area,” said Andy Chopra, chief investment officer for Banyan Investment Group. “We feel this is an underserved product type. There are segments of guests that don’t want to stay in large hotels.”
The downtown hotel will be the first Aloft in the state, but will serve to complement Starwood’s W brand, offering a similar stay at more affordable prices.
The goal is to start renovations this year. Construction will take 12 to 14 months, Chopra said. While the work is being done, the hotel will operate independently, under the name Hotel ATL.
The planned renovations should totally transform the circa-1980s hotel, which was sold in April for $19.9 million to Peachtree Hotel Group LLC.
“It’s definitely tired,” said hospitality consultant Linda Wilson, president of Key Advisors Inc.
Wilson sees Aloft as a good fit for downtown Atlanta. The hotel is just blocks from top tourist attractions, including the Georgia Aquarium and Centennial Olympic Park, and within walking distance of the AmericasMart, the Georgia World Congress Center and the Georgia Dome. The hotel could see much of its traffic from leisure travelers, as well as conventioneers.
“It’s a current, trendy-type product,” Wilson said, adding room rates at Aloft might be $30 less than at the W. “I think it would be well-suited for downtown, especially with the tourist activity wanting something a little atypical.”
When it opens next year, the Atlanta Aloft will feature 2,000 square feet of meeting space and an outdoor swimming pool. It also will offer brand standards, such as the “w xyz” bar with neon lights and live musical performances, as well as a fitness center called “re:charge.”
“Aloft leverages pop culture, urban design and cutting-edge technology to provide a unique and affordable choice for the next generation of travelers,” Brian McGuinness, senior vice president of specialty select brands for Starwood, said in a statement to Atlanta Business Chronicle.
“This popular brand is ideal for conversion projects, and we are excited to introduce Aloft into the heart of Atlanta’s bustling business district.”
Starwood has tried to bring Aloft to Atlanta for several years, according to Paul Breslin, managing partner of hotel consulting firm Panther Hospitality. “It’s been a strategy for quite some time.”
He said that up-branding the Days Inn to an Aloft should improve operations at the already successful hotel.
“You are going to have a much higher average rate, probably increase occupancy and [present] a better image for the city, a better experience overall for the guest. So that’s real positive.”
For Banyan Investment Group, a Miramar Beach, Fla.-based company that owns and operates 14 hotels, the downtown deal signals the company’s first major purchase.
“We’ve been very active over the last 24 months,” said Rakesh Chauhan, CEO. “We were very quiet prior to this.”
Banyan, which has been primarily focused on Florida, opened a Buckhead office in 2009 to seek out opportunities in metro Atlanta.
In 2010, the company acquired its first hotel in the area, a Country Inn & Suites in Lithia Springs.
For real estate giant DeBartolo, the Aloft represents an opportunity to turn around a distressed property in a prime location.
“We are big fans of Atlanta,” said Edward Kobel, president and chief operating officer. “We think that historically it’s been a great leader in job growth. It’s been a little sluggish early in this recession. But we think it’s going to recover very well over the next several years.”
Plus, the company is a huge fan of the nearby attractions, as well as neighboring businesses, such as The Coca-Cola Co.
“It’s just a great piece of real estate,” Kobel said, noting the company has bought about $1 billion worth of distressed properties. “This was the unique combination of a distressed asset in a great American city, with the chance to own a whole entire downtown city block.”


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Software reseller SoftWide plans to open 40 stores across the UK this year.
Each location will stock approximately 2,000 games, business and educational titles for Macs and PCs. The company hopes to apply further expansion next year, but hasn't announced to what extent yet.
The company was formed in July 2002, opening its first retail outlet on London's King's Road. It now has three shops in the capital, including locations in Camden Town, Croydon and Fulham.
Titles can be browsed using a touch screen, and bought titles are burnt to CD on the premises and boxed with a manual and other paperwork in the store.
The company also operates touch-screen locations inside other stores, such as bookstore Foyles. The technology was originally introduced in WH Smith in 2000, but the arrangement ended, as WH Smith adopted a new company policy on such arrangements.
Software available through the stores includes titles from Epic Interactive, Feral, Eurotalk, Relgold, Guildsoft and Pangea. The company is understood to be in discussion with major-league software developers in order to carry their products, too.
SoftWide is owned by Tribeka, which had previously distributed software under the SoftWide brand name.


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Potter's not selling, he's buying, and so is Icahn -- buying Apple, that is, and in a big way.
Investor Carl Icahn announced via a tweet on Tuesday that he had bought another $500 million worth of Apple stock, raising his overall ownership in the company to about $4.1 billion. Icahn's disclosure comes on the same day that traders dumped Apple shares following the company's disappointing quarterly financial results.
This is the latest page in the involvement of the activist investor with Apple. Icahn, chairman of Icahn Enterprises, has beento convince the company to buy back more stock, which presumably would lead to an increased share price.
"My buying seems to be going neck-and-neck with Apple's buyback program, but hope they win that race," Icahn tweeted.
During the company's conference call with analysts, CEO Tim Cook obliquely referred to the calls for the board to buy back more shares. "We've been buying back (shares) all year," he said, adding that has bought roughly $28 billion in stock of the $60 billion authorized to date. The company also announced a cash dividend of $3.05 a share which will get paid to shareholders of record on February 13.


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Recently, according to Bloomberg News, starting this Sunday. Apple including AirPods, Apple Watch, some iMac, HomePod and other products will be affected by the 15% tariff policy. It is reported that this tariff policy will be officially in force in Washington, DC at 12:01 am local time on Sunday. This will affect the US import and export.
The affected Apple devices include the Watch and Watch straps, AirPods, HomePod, some Beats headsets and some iMac products. According to Bloomberg News, in addition to Apple hardware products, even the iPhone’s repair spare parts will be affected. Also, the NAND flash memory used in the iPhone will also be affected.
Earlier, according to Apple analyst Guo Mingxi, he believed that it would “distribute” the new US tariff costs in other ways. Which will include “the short term” rather than by increasing product prices. And there is news that Apple has been expanding its factory in countries such as India and Vietnam. In the long run, this will make Apple’s production line more diversified to avoid excessive dependence on China. Company hopes to increase production channels to offset the impact of tariffs.
Tim Cook recently proposed a “good reason” when he met with Trump. Tariffs would put Apple in a position to be inferior to competitors such as Samsung. After the meeting, Trump : “I think he put forward a very unique view, so I am considering his point of view.
Recently, Company also sent a letter to the Trump administration in June to urge it not to impose tariffs on Apple products.Because this will reduce Apple’s contribution to the US economy and affect its global competitiveness. Trump had previously said that it might “forgive” Apple products before the new tariff policy came into force. However, his recent tweets suggest that this is unlikely to happen.
Since Trump said that tariffs on electronic products such as smartphones and laptops will be postponed until December 15. Right now, this is the only good news for Apple. As for the future development, it will look at the United States. Government related decisions.


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Chipotle Mexican Grill, to give the fast food chain its full title, added a new menu item this month. Hardly groundbreaking culinary news except that this funny, frilly named item, Sofritas, is vegan. Clearly it’s not enough that Chipotle already has a veggie option for those pesky animal-loving health nuts. Now they’ve gone and added Sofritas, which is made using Hodo Soy, an organic and therefore non-GMO tofu. The tofu is shredded and braised with chipotle chilies, roasted poblano peppers and a blend of spices (a nice dash of cumin and coriander seeds seem to be in that blend, but that’s just a guess). A sofrito is a base spice mix in Latin cooking, hence the name?
Sofritas sits on the menu alongside pork, chicken, beef and veggie on Chipotle’s build-your-own burrito, tacos, salad or bowls, which are the burrito’s insides without the flour tortilla (thus it’s gluten-free). Compared to the veggie burritos, which can be vegan by avoiding the cheese and sour cream, Sofritas is much tastier. It also has a better texture — almost chicken-y. The veggie, which adds guacamole to the array of filling choices, is a bit gushy and a bit bland — even with the hot salsa.
Chipotle, which opened in 1993 and now spans this land with 1,600 restaurants, several of which dot the Greater Boston area, previously added a vegan item called Garden Blend. Frankly, that sounds dull and granny-like and it may well have been: it was unsuccessful and axed.
According to the website and a rep, Chipotle attempts to use only naturally raised meat and dairy from pasture-grazed cows, all of which is kinder than factory farming. While some avoid meat for humane reasons, many self and health fixated urbanites are more concerned about their own well-being and believe health is better achieved with a plant-based diet. They could be on to something…
If all this Sofritas nonsense weren’t enough, a printout taped to the counter at the Fresh Pond Chipotle declares that their pinto beans are no longer cooked with bacon and join the vegetarian black beans as meatless. Another blow to the freedom of the meat eater? (Hint: They taste perfectly fine without the pork.)
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BROOMFIELD, CO – (11-05-20) – Retailers get excited because Eldorado Presents will launch its ‘Top Ten Must-Have Gifts for Holidays’ on Thursday November 12 exclusively on Facebook Live.
The award-winning international distributor of adult toys, party supplies and lingerie, has scheduled the newest episode in their sexual health and wellness education series – Eldorado Presents, on Thursday, November 12 at 11:00 AM MT.
Eldorado has partnered with CalExotics for November’s Facebook Event which will review the top ten CalExotics gift guide for the holiday season.
This thirty-minute product review will be hosted by Lupe Martinez, a CalExotics International Business Development Executive. CalExotics is the nation’s leading manufacturer of adult toys and novelties. Since 1994, the company has been at the forefront of research and development of products to enhance the sexual experience of women, men, and couples.
Ms. Martinez is excited to host the final Eldorado Facebook Live event of year. “I am thrilled to partner with Eldorado to kick off the gift-giving season! “We have some exciting, must-have products for the holidays for everyone on your naughty list. Be sure to join us live on November 12th!” said Martinez.
This event is open to the public, suitable for both adult retailers and retail customers. Audience members are encouraged to engage throughout the live stream event for the opportunity to a receive a free CalExotics gift.
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In an interview, Pete Lau, the company’s CEO said that thenewly-announced OnePlus TVswill be produced in India by the end of the year.
As for now, the TVs sold in India are imported from China with a starting price for the non-Pro model at INR 69, 900. Gradually, TVs sold in the country will be produced within the borders, which could also mean that prices would go down a little due to the lack of import taxes and cost of labor.
Unfortunately, the CEO also said that the company isn’t planning affordable TVs in the near future and will focus on higher-end devices for now.
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DaySmart Software, the leading provider of business management software empowering entrepreneurs to operate and grow their businesses, today announced the acquisition of Scottsdale, AZ-based AppointmentPlus, a leading online appointment scheduling software provider. AppointmentPlus CEO Bob La Loggia, along with the company’s 100+ employees, will join DaySmart in providing customers with easy-to-use, industry leading software that […]
DaySmart is proud to welcome Patrick Shanahan as its chief executive officer (CEO). He steps into the role following his tenure on DaySmart’s board of directors, where he contributed his deep knowledge and experience in the payments industry. Patrick started his payments career at CardConnect in 2008 and became the Chief Operating Officer in 2011. […]
Spa Business Magazine featured DaySmart in its Q3 print issue, focusing on how software can be used to improve customer engagement and highlighting Orchid customer Pure Touch Skin Center. Jeff Dickerson, DaySmart CEO, suggests ways to keep clients engaged with a company’s digital presence. Read the article here.
Dermascope Magazine features DaySmart Software’s new research reports on technology trends impacting the United States’ small businesses. The national study examined how small business owners are leveraging technology to grow their businesses and the challenges they are facing along the way. Read the full article here.
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Akanksha Nagar, Financial Express
September 25, 2023
Adding to the fizz in the energy drink market, NourishCo, a division of Tata Consumer Products (TCP), has unveiled Say Never — a caffeine-based energy drink priced at Rs 10 for a 200 ml cup — in two variants of red (berries) and blue (tropical flavours). In its initial phase of launch, the brand will be available largely through general trade outlets in Karnataka and some key markets of the north, including Delhi, NCR, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Vikram Grover, MD, NourishCo Beverages, TCP, says, “With Say Never we are celebrating the heroes who carve their own path.”
As a functional beverage, the energy drinks segment has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years to stand at Rs 3,500 crore in 2022. Experts reckon the market will touch Rs 10,000 crore by 2027. Red Bull is the category leader with a 61% market share of the market.
PepsiCo’s debut of Sting a few years ago at an inviting Rs 50 for 250 ml (as opposed to Red Bull’s Rs 125 for 250 ml can) had shaken up the category. With a 7% market share Sting has surpassed PepsiCo’s older products like Mountain Dew to become the company’s fastest-growing brand. Charged by Thums Up kept up the buzz for Coca-Cola during the 2023 edition of the Indian Premier League on Star Sports. Grover says Say Never will stand out for two reasons — the attractive price point and the cup delivery format, which the company has used with Gluco+. “The rapid growth in this energy segment in the recent past has come on the back of price disruption, and we feel that we can take that disruption forward,” he adds.
As energy drinks still operate in a niche segment with a premium play, an affordable price point can be a game-changer, say experts. “Affordability is a significant driver in India, especially for pre-teens, teens and college students,” says Devangshu Dutta, CEO, Third Eyesight. For many years energy drinks were treated as a niche premium opportunity, but the availability of lower price options has opened up the mass market as demonstrated by PepsiCo’s Sting in PET bottles with a much lower price point.
While the cola giants have an obvious advantage in terms of shelf space accessibility, given the market’s trajectory even smaller players stand a good chance to create a space for themselves. “Clarity in positioning, techniques to make the brand stand out, and ensuring availability with strong distribution and replenishment is imperative to get ahead,” Dutta suggests.
TCP plays in the energy space with Tata Gluco+, a glucose-based energy drink targeting a young consumer set; for Say Never the target is the youth between the ages of 18 and 35.
Besides pricing, what will be make or break is marketing muscle and a differentiated appeal, says Samit Sinha, managing partner, Alchemist Brand Consulting. “Say Never can position itself as a party-drink — akin to how Red Bull is equated with active lifestyles. There are enough opportunities to create nuanced differences in attributes, functional benefits and most of all, emotional benefits.”
NourishCo contributes 4% to the TCP overall business and in Q1 of FY23, its recorded a strong revenue growth of 60%. TCP’s flagship drink Tata Gluco+ registered a growth of 61% in the same period.
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Shambhavi Anand, Economic Times
New Delhi, May 24, 2023
Retailers and shopkeepers will soon not be allowed to seek phone numbers of their customers while generating bills, according to a diktat by the department of consumer affairs, a senior government official said.
Taking the numbers of customers without their “express consent” is a breach and encroachment of privacy, said the official, without wanting to be identified.
The official added that such a move will be classified as an unfair trading practice defined as any business practice or act that is deceptive, fraudulent, or causes injury to a consumer.
Most large retailers mandatorily take down buyers’ phone numbers while generating the bill for their purchases and use them for loyalty programmes or sending push messages.
The move has come after the department received several complaints from consumers about retailers insisting on getting their phone numbers. This will be communicated to all retailers through industry bodies representing retailers soon, the official added.
While the implementation of these new rules may require some adjustments and initial costs for retailers, it is seen as a necessary step towards protecting consumer privacy and ensuring fair business practices in the retail sector, said experts.
While retailers will have to rework their systems in case this becomes a regulation, this won’t stop them from asking for phone numbers of consumers as their loyalty programmes run on these numbers, said Devangshu Dutta, founder of Third Eyesight, a retail consultancy firm.
He added that retailers also use numbers for sending e-invoices and so this could have a cost impact and environmental impact.
(Published in Economic Times)
Third Eyesight’s CEO, Devangshu Dutta recently participated in a discussion about the phenomenal growth of the Patanjali brand, from yoga lessons to a food and FMCG conglomerate taking well-established multinational and Indian competitors head-on. In a conversation with Zee Business anchor, P. Karunya Rao and FCB-Ulka’s chairman Rohit Ohri, Devangshu shared his thoughts on the factors playing to Patanjali’s advantage. Excerpts from the conversation were telecast on Brandstand on Zee Business:
Aggregator models and hyperlocal delivery, in theory, have some significant advantages over existing business models.
Unlike an inventory-based model, aggregation is asset-light, allowing rapid building of critical mass. A start-up can tap into existing infrastructure, as a bridge between existing retailers and the consumer. By tapping into fleeting consumption opportunities, the aggregator can actually drive new demand to the retailer in the short term.
A hyperlocal delivery business can concentrate on understanding the nuances of a customer group in a small geographic area and spend its management and financial resources to develop a viable presence more intensively.
However, both business models are typically constrained for margins, especially in categories such as food and grocery. As volume builds up, it’s feasible for the aggregator to transition at least part if not the entire business to an inventory-based model for improved fulfilment and better margins. By doing so the aggregator would, therefore, transition itself to being the retailer.
Customer acquisition has become very expensive over the last couple of years, with marketplaces and online retailers having driven up advertising costs – on top of that, customer stickiness is very low, which means that the platform has to spend similar amounts of money to re-acquire a large chunk of customers for each transaction.
The aggregator model also needs intensive recruitment of supply-side relationships. A key metric for an aggregator’s success is the number of local merchants it can mobilise quickly. After the initial intensive recruitment the merchants need to be equipped to use the platform optimally and also need to be able to handle the demand generated.
Most importantly, the acquisitions on both sides – merchants and customers – need to move in step as they are mutually-reinforcing. If done well, this can provide a higher stickiness with the consumer, which is a significant success outcome.
For all the attention paid to the entry and expansion of multinational retailers and nationwide ecommerce growth, retail remains predominantly a local activity. The differences among customers based on where they live or are located currently and the immediacy of their needs continue to drive diversity of shopping habits and the unpredictability of demand. Services and information based products may be delivered remotely, but with physical products local retailers do still have a better chance of servicing the consumer.
What has been missing on the part of local vendors is the ability to use web technologies to provide access to their customers at a time and in a way that is convenient for the customers. Also, importantly, their visibility and the ability to attract customer footfall has been negatively affected by ecommerce in the last 2 years. With penetration of mobile internet across a variety of income segments, conditions are today far more conducive for highly localised and aggregation-oriented services. So a hyperlocal platform that focusses on creating better visibility for small businesses, and connecting them with customers who have a need for their products and services, is an opportunity that is begging to be addressed.
It is likely that each locality will end up having two strong players: a market leader and a follower. For a hyperlocal to fit into either role, it is critical to rapidly create viability in each location it targets, and – in order to build overall scale and continued attractiveness for investors – quickly move on to replicate the model in another location, and then another. They can become potential acquisition targets for larger ecommerce companies, which could acquire to not only take out potential competition but also to imbibe the learnings and capabilities needed to deal with demand microcosms.
High stake bets are being placed on this table – and some being lost with business closures – but the game is far from being played out yet.
We’re all for new business ideas and guerilla marketing tactics. However, it is a fact that some work, and many don’t.
Here’s one idea that raises some question marks.
It’s a business called freepapercups.com that provides free paper cups to offices carrying the ads of other companies who pay for the cups. The company’s proposition is that everyone wins – the recepient office saves on paper cup expenditure, coffee service providers get a new tool to save their customers money (and for themselves to possibly gain some share or the revenues?), and the advertiser gets to penetrate a previously untouched white-space. Who knows – this may work, just like the ads and logos painted on the roofs of white delivery vans.
However, the thing is this: paper cups – with ads or without – will get thrown away like yesterday’s newspaper and last month’s magazine. So, this would be another form of broadcast advertising whose effectiveness needs to be measured and proven, and it’s guilty (of waste) unless proven innocent.
Also, it is invasive to a great degree in a space that should be uncluttered with any messages other than what are relevant to the organization’s own business.
So, will it really contribute anything significant to the offices who won’t be spending on the paper cups, or to the brands that do spend to advertise on them? Or will it just detract from both?
What might be next – co-branded letterheads perhaps?
Lest I sound too much of a cynic, let me offer up a thought: maybe governments should put a new line item in their budgets – “Grant on expenditure on ceramic coffee cups for offices to carry environmental and fiscal-consciousness messages”.
A caffeine-laced economic stimulus – now that should get the economy going again!


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And for more info, here’s part of an article on the above, and germs. Having not yet survived a very nasty upper respiratory infection, including laryngitis, bronchitis and sinusitis, and two rounds of antibiotics (and you know what that means – carton after carton of yogurt!), that’s still hanging around, I begin to think maybe, just maybe, there’s something to this:
Germs Never Sleep
Published November 5, 2006
“Georgia-Pacific, the paper goods company, began receiving field reports about mysterious collections of used paper towels near bathroom exits. Further investigation found bathroom users were carrying towels to the door to cover the knob and then discarding them on the floor (because the trash cans were far away).
In the summer the company introduced Safe-T-Gard, a combination dispenser of doorknob-size tissues and a trash receptacle to be mounted on the wall next to doors.
Consumer fear of unclean environments has developed significantly over the
last five years, said Bill Sleeper, the general manager of Georgia-Pacific’s commercial tissue and towel category. “All of the issues of nosocomial infections in hospitals, the risk of bird flu, the cruise ship outbreaks, there’s just more and more awareness of health issues,” he said.
But some of the resulting behavior makes no sense, Mr. Sleeper said. The company’s studies have found bathroom users covering their fingers in toilet paper before flushing and using more tissue to open stall doors, even though there is almost no health reason to do so, because their next stop is the sink to wash their hands with soap and water.
Another company, Fulkerson, in Cumming, Ga., is attacking doorknobs differently. Its SanitGrasp, introduced in May at the National Restaurant Association convention in Chicago, replaces traditional pull handles with a large U-shape device, which allows a door to be opened with a forearm.
At the grass roots, antigerm innovation is furious:
• Sandra Barbor, 60, of Sandwich, Ill., was always bothered by having to grasp the handles of shopping carts, and when her husband was found to have myelodysplastic syndrome, which compromised his immune system, she was driven to invent the Sani-Shopping Cover, a $3.49 strip of protective vinyl that adheres to cart handles. Ms. Barbor, a retired marketer, has sold about 1,000 covers online.”
Page 2 of the article:
“• Hotel guests, concerned that bedspreads are not washed as frequently as sheets, have taken to whisking them off the bed on arrival and throwing them, bottom side up, into a corner. Marriott hotels responded last year with a bedding concept called Revive. Comforters are encased in white cotton covers, which are washed with the bedsheets. [more on this one later]
City Year New York
A portable personal subway strap.
• On the Internet frequent travelers caution about the dirtiness of hotel television remotes (suggestions include carrying a plastic bag to sheathe these button-covered germ magnets) and room coffee mugs. (Maids, the discussion-board wisdom goes, do not replace them with properly washed ones but use the towels they used to clean the toilet to swab dirty cups.)
FREQUENTERS of such message boards insist their fears are reasonable.
One of them, Julie Zagars, 34, a consultant to the food and beverage industry, said by phone, “I am a frequent traveler, and I simply don’t have time to get sick.”
When Ms. Zagars boards planes, she first slips around her neck the Air Supply Ionic Personal Air Purifier, which the company promises will repel allergens and viruses. Next she wipes the armrests, headrest and tray table with Clorox Disinfecting Wipes, and finally she pulls out her own cotton travel blanket.
Some antigerm sentiment could be stemming from the increasing pressure not to miss days at work, said Allison Janse, an author of “The Germ Freak’s Guide to Outwitting Colds and Flu: Guerrilla Tactics to Keep Yourself Healthy at Home, at Work and in the World.”
The task of transmuting fear into cheer is left to marketers. Probably the first wave of modern germ consciousness began in 1997, with the consumer introduction of Purell, the hand-sanitizing gel (around since 1988 for the medical profession). Pfizer, its maker, has updated the product as the new wave of germ-fighting gadgets arrives. The company has introduced a multicolor line of the sanitizer, Purell-2-Go, which comes in small bottles with rubber rings to attach to backpacks, lunchboxes and key chains. “We tried to make it fun,” said Erica Johnson, a Pfizer spokeswoman.
A children’s book by Elizabeth Verdick published this year by Free Spirit titled “Germs Are Not for Sharing” has illustrations of children playing together without touching. “When germs get on your hands,” the text reads, “they can spread to other people. When you hold hands or play games or give each other high fives.”
“I kind of doubt kids will stop giving each other high fives,” said Dr. Michael Bell, the associate director for infection control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While Dr. Bell recommends teaching children about hygiene, washing one’s hands after using the bathroom and making sure to clean kitchen surfaces carefully is as much as most people need do, he said.
There is no hard scientific evidence that any of the air filters, nose sprays or personal sterile headrest covers for travelers help prevent infections.
But facts are not standing in the way of the antigerm marketplace, where style is becoming increasingly important. In 2001, Hydro-Photon of Blue Hill, Me., introduced SteriPEN, a portable but somewhat clunky ultraviolet device to disinfect drinking water for adventure travelers. The device is being used not only by back-country campers but also by urban Americans wanting to take extra precautions.
They want to carry the pen in their pockets, said Ed Volkwein, the company president. He expects to have a sleeker line of $130 SteriPENs, colored silver and black, in stores by Christmas.
Big-city living is a minefield for the germ-conscious. Emily Beck, the inventor of City Mitts, nonslip antibacterial gloves that commuters can wear to grasp subway handholds, has developed a prototype of a product to keep potentially infectious strangers even farther at bay.
The Excuse Me flag is a little yellow banner mounted on a lightweight pole, which is attached to one’s waist so it swings back and forth in front of the wearer during walking. Any other pedestrian who walks too close will be slapped in the face by the pole or the yellow flag, which reads “Excuse Me.”
“It generates a cubic yard of free walking space between you and a sneezer,” Ms Beck, a former New Yorker, said from her home in Delaware. “It makes it so you don’t have to touch anybody or talk to anybody in New York.” ”
From Crave.cnet.com (all of the following):
Dec 11 2007
Attention, parents of school-age children. Are you worried about a growing Purell addiction? CleanWell has the hand sanitizer for you.
The San Francisco-based company has come out with an alcohol-free, all-natural hand sanitizer. I got some samples at the ThinkGreen conference last week and my hands have been free of epidemic-causing bacteria ever since.
Need a sanitizing spritz?
(Credit: Michael Kanellos/CNET News.com)
The company claims it kills Listeria monocytogenes, Candida (we can make it together) albicans, Streptococcus pygenes, and Salmonella enterica. You can’t spray it on chicken, but the salmonella killing would be great for kitchen sanitizing. Spray CleanWell on your hands and it kills over 99 percent of these germs in 15 seconds, according to the company.
The active ingredient is called Ingenium. It’s not from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Instead, it’s a mix of essential oils that kill germs in concert. The product literature is great. It shows a kid hugging a deer. Most people would think: “cute.” To moms, that deer is just a rat with horns.
The 1-ounce spray bottle pictured here costs $7.99 and is good for 225 sprays. (That’s a lot of deer hugging.) The company also sells wipes and other products.
Posted in: Green tech
Sep 24 2007
It’s already shaping up to be a banner day for the germaphobes here at Crave. Just after posting an item about the latest OCD vacuum cleaner, we came across another gadget to sanitize our food as well.
The “Lotus Sanitizing System” uses “super-oxygen” infused water to pulverize bacteria and other unsavory elements from pretty much whatever will fit in its “multi-purpose sanitizing bowl,” according to Shiny Shiny. (You can watch a video of it in action here.)
Granted, it’s not the first food sanitizer on the market–there are even gadgets out there designed to make meat squeaky clean. But at $170, it’s far cheaper than other models we’ve seen. Besides, when it comes to ingestion (and digestion), the true germaphobe never skimps.
Jul 17 2007
Talk about the world turned upside-down. The last thing we thought we’d ever see is people clamoring to make their bathrooms more like public loos, but that’s apparently what’s happening in our increasingly fixture-fixated consumer market.
We knew the trend had become mainstream (no pun, honest) after witnessing the overwhelming popularity of Dyson’s “Airblade” hand-drying machine. But that product is aimed at the business market–we think. The “EZ Touchless Infrared Sensor Faucet,” however, is clearly destined for the household at $50, according to GadgetGrid.
And why not? It’s at the perfect intersection with yet another hot trend, products targeted at the germaphobe community.
Posted in: Home
Jul 11 2007
(Credit: Hammacher Schlemmer)
Some months ago–on Jan. 1, as a matter of fact–we reported what we then thought was the “ultimate germaphobe gadget,” perhaps our way of ushering in a bacteria-free 2007. Barely halfway through the year, however, that item appears to have already been eclipsed.
Not only does the “Wide Coverage Germ-Eliminating Wand” claim to eradicate “99 percent of bacteria, viruses, mold, and dust mites,” but it can do so in broader areas with a 6-inch ultraviolet lightbulb. All the germaphobic head of the household needs to do is hold the wand 3 inches over a suspect surface for 20 seconds, according to Hammacher Schlemmer, and it can be programmed in 5- or 60-minute intervals.
We haven’t heard from him lately, but we’re certain that the “OCD Action Figure” will be pleased.
Posted in: Lifestyle
Jul 2 2007
Dropping your iPhone in the toilet might actually be an improvement.
iSkin’s latest antibacterial case made for Apple’s iPhone reminds us that a product’s coolness is no defense against deadly bacteria. In fact, studies have shown that cell phones happen to be one of the filthiest objects imaginable–dirtier than a toilet seat, computer keyboard, or the bottom of a shoe. There’s just something magical about the combination of spittle and your text-crazy hands that make mobile phones a germ’s best friend. The antibacterial iSkin Revo case for the iPhone is due out this month with a price of $39. Until then, think twice before passing your iPhone around at a party.
Mar 1 2007
Its name may sound like something out of RoboCop, but the purifier claims to eliminate 99.99 percent of all germs. The secret weapon is a ceramic core that reaches 400 degrees, a temperature where no micro-organism can build their germ villages, according to Appliancist. (Airfree claims that it functions at these levels without burning down the house. Glad they mentioned that.)
We’ve seen–and tried–our share of miracle air cleaners, so forgive us for withholding judgment on Airfree’s claims. But even if it doesn’t pan out, you can always turn it into a futuristic Trojan helmet.
Feb 26 2007
It’s been a banner week for germaphobes. Just the other day we pointed to a device that purifies water with UV rays, and now we get word of a product that filters out airborne germs from the air within its immediate vicinity.
The “Ionic USB Air Purifier,” according to Fareastgizmos, “discharges negative ions to absorb second-hand smoke, odors, clean airborne dust, and eliminate bacteria, germs, viruses.” The device circulates air silently without a fan and needs no filters. All you need, apparently, is faith.
Feb 23 2007
(Credit: Broadband Media)
Good news, fellow germaphobes. We’ve seen all manner of gadgets that sterilize surfaces but none that address what we ingest. Until now.
The “SteriPEN UV Light Water Purifier” treats H2O with a germicidal lamp, supposedly rendering it bacteria-free with no chemical aftertaste and “99.99 percent safe to drink,” according to Mobile Magazine. With our luck, we’ll probably be among the remaining 0.01 percent.
Jan 1 2007
(Credit: Hammacher Schlemmer)
‘Tis the season to get sick, and Crave wants to do its part to help keep you healthy. We could list various types of bacteria-resistant and washable equipment on the market, but we’ve learned of another gadget that claims to detect and zap germs even before touching a piece of potentially infected hardware.
Hammacher Schlemmer says its “Handheld Germ-Eliminating Light” can “eliminate 99.99% of E-Coli, staphylococcus, salmonella, and germs that cause the flu and the common cold.” The miracle gadget supposedly works with the same type of ultraviolet light and nanotechnology used to sterilize surgical instruments in hospitals.
If you’re considering one of these as a belated holiday gift, we suggest personalizing it with an OCD action figure to show how much you really care.
Dec 25 2006
The timing for this is perfect, as parents all over the world face the prospect of sticky-fingered kids running amok on sugar highs from an oversupply of holiday treats.
The mere thought of grubby little mitts everywhere is enough incentive for some of us to leave Christmas dinner early just so we can order one of Unotron’s wired or unwired washable keyboards, which SCI FI Tech says “can be sprayed over and over with disinfectants, submersed in cleaning fluid, rinsed under a faucet and then blow-dried.” It’s an ideal alternative for kids playing on the computer while the Legos are in the dishwasher.
So, using all of the above – will it keep you safe and healthy and free from the nasty germs around this season? That’s the $64,000 question, isn’t it?


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Arlington, VA — March 17, 2003 — Closer collaboration between retailers and their suppliers is key to helping retail outlets streamline their supply chains and meeting major challenges in today's consumer-driven economy, but data-exchange challenges are stymieing broader cooperation, according to the results of a new survey.
The latest annual survey of members of the International Mass Retail Association (IMRA) revealed business strategies that retailers and their suppliers are pursuing to navigate the rapidly evolving global marketplace, and the results underscored the effectiveness of retailer-supplier collaboration.
Survey respondents identified two key challenges in today's retail landscape:
- Differentiating assortment, presentation and experience in a homogenized marketplace where consumers can buy their groceries at the supercenter store, their gasoline at the convenience store, and just about anything over the Internet.
- Applying improved analytics at the store level to support a more effective response to consumer preferences and needs.
"One of the most striking things about the survey," said KSA Vice President John Champion, "is that respondents generally agreed that neither of these challenges can be met without establishing closer relationships with their suppliers." He noted that enhanced supplier partnerships can help retailers surmount challenges in key strategic areas, including:
- Customizing merchandise assortments to help retailers differentiate themselves.
- Moving merchandise more efficiently from sources to stores.
- Selling a wider array of products to increasingly demanding consumers.
Although retailers have made significant progress in gathering data to support strategic decision making in all of these areas, surprising gaps remain, according to the survey report. Unanswered questions include:
- What are the benefits of domestic versus global sourcing?
- How visible to the retailers are the details of incoming shipments?
- How can retailers reduce out-of-stock holes as the merchandise mix explodes?
The surveyed retailers recognized the need for more collaborative relationships with their trading partners to stay competitive, but they also admitted that these relationships have not yet evolved. The level of trust is not an issue, however, as nearly 90 percent of respondents said they trust the majority of their trading partners. The barrier is the perceived gap in the technology to support efficient data exchange. While the tools to support effective, automated exchange of collaborative planning processes are now available, the survey showed that only one in five retailers use high-tech software to support data exchange.
The results of collaborative trading partner planning programs are impressive. After implementation, 80 percent of respondents saw significant improvements in such key areas as reduced forecasting errors, lower levels of distribution center (DC) inventory and increased store in-stock levels.
A number of retailers and manufacturers described efforts underway to plan for exploiting the many emerging technologies. One of the leading examples is radio frequency identification, or RFID. In three to five years, RFID technology will be cost effective enough to allow each unit of inventory to be tagged, making it possible to pinpoint its movement throughout the supply chain from point of manufacture to the point where the customer takes it through the store's front door.
In the shorter term, computer assisted ordering (CAO) programs are already available. Supported by store-level sales data, perpetual inventory systems and demand forecasting, retailers that have implemented CAO report dramatic improvement of in-stock levels, with cost-saving reductions in store and DC inventory.
The survey identified additional performance measures that retailers want to establish and also showed that they do need to develop the building blocks of enhanced trading partner relationships — from perpetual inventory and demand forecasting systems to point-of-sale applications.
Leading retailers have generally taken some of the easy in-house steps toward enhanced supplier partnerships, according to the study. These include breaking down internal barriers to collaborative relationship building and establishing cross-functional teams with shared metric targets. However, the survey indicated that a cross-functional internal organization will not bring maximum benefits without corresponding connections in supplier organizations. The study concludes that successful collaboration requires connections across key functions, supported by a strong set of cross-company measurements focused on shared strategic goals.
IMRA members represent over $1 trillion in sales annually and operate more than 100,000 stores, manufacturing facilities and distribution centers nationwide.
IMRA used Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA), an international management consulting firm specializing in the retail and consumer products industries, to conduct the survey of IMRA's members and analyze the results to identify best-practice trends. In addition to the study's quantitative component, qualitative results were obtained through in-depth interviews with 30 industry leaders representing a cross-section of retailers and key suppliers.
"Over the past five years the retail landscape has changed dramatically," noted IMRA President Sandra Kennedy in explaining why the association conducts the annual survey. "By identifying leading-edge supply chain practices adopted by pioneering retailers and sharing them more broadly, we give all retailers insight into what they should consider in preparing for the future." IMRA released the full study in February during the association's logistics conference in Orlando, Fla.


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Archive for "Patches" Tag
Performance fixes will arrive with client patches in the coming weeks, according to Respawn.
Sega also reports a profit in the six-month period ending on September 30th.
The patches will still continue to arrive though.
Several developers are stating that no charges are being leveled for updating their games on the console.
Do missing game features include a working game at launch?


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Sales and marketing firm O’Connor Marketing has revealed this week their secrets to increase company productivity, and shared how taking to the skies has helped them to improve business performance dramatically.
About O'Connor Marketing: http://www.oconnormarketing.com.au/about-us/
Based in Sydney, O’Connor Marketing is an outsourced sales and marketing specialist that conducts promotional B2B and B2C campaigns for clients from the telecommunications, energy and charity sectors. The firm is incredibly passionate about what they do, and this is reflected in the quality of the marketing and sales campaigns they create and manage for their clients’ brands. Due to the in-person, face to face approach they take to marketing, the firm relies heavily on their workforce sharing their passion and enthusiasm for the industry and believes it is this that gives them the edge over other marketing solutions.
Keen to investigate just how much of an impact their workforces’ attitude has on the results they generate for their clients, the firm recently considered the relationship between company morale and productivity. The company was instantly drawn to a study conducted by the University of Warwick’s Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy. The 2015 study involved 700 participants, from this group, individuals were chosen at random and either shown a 10-minute comedy video or given snacks and drinks. After this, participants were asked a series of questions to ensure the experiences had made them happy, before being asked to complete various tasks to measure their productivity levels.
The study found that happiness increased productivity by an average of 12% with the highest increase being 20%. O’Connor Marketing discovered that their own experiences reflect the results of the study, reporting that O’Connor Marketing discovered that their own experiences reflect the results of the study, reporting that focusing on improving morale among their workforce has led to better performance and higher productivity. .
As a result, O’Connor Marketing has voiced their commitment to spreading happiness throughout their organisation through specially organised activities and incentives. This has seen the firm take part in a wide range of fun days out designed to push their professionals outside their comfort zones. Most recently the company has taken a helicopter ride over Sydney and challenged themselves to the Wild Ropes Course at Taronga Zoo.
The company has noted that as well as creating a more open and happy work culture, these activities have had a significant impact in other areas too. ‘We try to organise activities that are not only fun but which open up new experiences and challenges. This has driven our workforce to be more daring and seek out new opportunities, which is helping everyone to move forward and find the courage to chase bigger goals in the workplace’ stated O’Connor Marketing.
Follow O'Connor Marketing on Twitter @OMCAustralia or Like them on Facebook.
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- 24 Mar 2011:Iwate Toshiba Electronics will start to ramp-up production lines from March 28. However, Toshiba Mobile Display (Saitama Pref.), a wholly-owned subsidiary and manufacturer of mid- and small-sized LCD displays, expects to take about a month to secure recovery of its manufacturing line. Toshiba has started to supply some products alternatively from the Ishikawa Works, the company's another production facility located in Ishikawa Pref..
- 22 Mar 2011:
- 18 Mar 2011:
- 16 Mar 2011:Rambus has renewed its patent license agreement with Toshiba. This five year agreement covers Toshiba's products with DRAM memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, and other DRAM devices. Rambus will receive royalty payments based on the shipment of these memory controllers.
- 15 Mar 2011:
- Toshiba to scale back activities, cut power consumption in response to earthquake (Mar 14) - Company releaseToshiba said it will cooperate with Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) request to cut electricity consumption by operating only those of its businesses related to provision of essential services required for social and economic activities.
- 13 Mar 2011:Apple's next-generation iPad contains chips made by Toshiba, Broadcom and Texas Instruments, according to an initial tear-down report by gadget-repair site iFixit. Toshiba supplied the device's storage chips, iFixit said, while Broadcom made the chips used for wireless Internet access. TI chips were used to control the iPad's touchscreen.
- 12 Mar 2011:The two Toshiba-SanDisk JV semiconductor manufacturing plants, Fab 3 and Fab 4, were down for a short period of time due to the earthquake and were back up and operational as of Friday morning, Pacific Time. SanDisk's current assessment is that there has been minimal immediate impact on wafer output due to the earthquake.
- Japan's biggest-ever earthquake halted production briefly at Toshiba's chip plants on Friday and could delay crucial shipments. Toshiba and SanDisk share cutting-edge facilities in Yokkaichi, where they make NAND chips increasingly in demand by Apple and other mobile device makers.
- 4 Mar 2011:
- 23 Feb 2011:Toshiba has developed a new flip-flop circuit using 40nm CMOS process that the company claims will reduce power consumption in mobile equipment. Measured data verifies that the power dissipation of the new flip-flop is up to 77% less than that of a conventional flip-flop and that it achieves a 24% reduction in total power consumption when applied to a wireless LAN chip.
- 11 Feb 2011:
- 3 Feb 2011:The profit gain was largely due to "a significantly improved performance in electronic devices, driven mainly by the return to profit of the LCD business and demand expansion in NAND flash memories," Toshiba said in a statement.
- 25 Jan 2011:Toshiba is hammering out a deal to outsource fabrication of advanced system chips to Globalfoundries, the Nikkei business daily reported, citing company sources.
- 14 Jan 2011:
- 5 Jan 2011:"It'll come out in the spring of 2011 and the price, we haven't decided yet," said Chris Casper, a group manager at Toshiba's digital products division.
- 29 Dec 2010:Toshiba announced it has acquired Fujitsu's shareholding in Toshiba Storage Device and turned the JV its wholly-owned subsidiary. Toshiba and Fujitsu merged their HDD businesses in October 2009.
- 27 Dec 2010:Sony has announced plans to invest approximately 100 billion yen (US$1.2 billion) over the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012, to double its production capacity for CCD and CMOS image sensors. The investment plan includes the transfer of a plant from Toshiba.
- 26 Dec 2010:As part of the strategy for transforming the system LSI business and securing an asset light business model, Toshiba has signed a MoU with Sony, expressing the intent to dissolve Nagasaki Semiconductor Manufacturing (NSM) and to transfer 300mm wafer fabrication lines there from Toshiba to Sony.
- 24 Dec 2010:
- Toshiba will outsource fabrication of system chips to South Korea's Samsung Electronics, freeing up resources for its memory chip operations, the Nikkei business daily has reported.
- 23 Dec 2010:Sony plans to buy back a Nagasaki semiconductor plant from Toshiba for about 50 billion yen (US$597.2 million) to double output capacity for image sensors used in smartphones and other devices, the Nikkei business daily reported recently.
- 22 Dec 2010:The upgrade reflects improving 2011 prospects for NAND flash memory demand, driven by tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives. The improving demand picture offsets concerns about higher supply due to new NAND fabs from Samsung, Toshiba and Micron expanding production in 2011.
- 17 Dec 2010:
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- 14 Dec 2010:Toshiba will spend about US$1.19 billion to build a new fabrication plant to produce the panels for Apple.
- 9 Dec 2010:Toshiba's shipments of NAND flash memory chips may fall as much as 20% in January and February because of a power outage at a plant, the company said.
- 7 Dec 2010:
- 18 Nov 2010:Toshiba will shut its No.2 plant in Yokkaichi, central Japan, by the end of December and phase out low-end chips used in products such as memory sticks. The company will also farm out production of so-called logic chips next year to cut costs at a business that's "barely breaking even."
- 2 Nov 2010:Intel, Toshiba and Samsung Electronics will join hands to develop technologies that could more than halve semiconductor line widths to nearly 10 nanometers by 2016, the Nikkei daily reported.
- 26 Oct 2010:Toshiba made 48% of its products in Japan in the period from April to September 2009 and bought 45% of its components from Japan-based suppliers. By the same period this year, the ratios were down to 44% and 42%, respectively. The change added 4.2 billion yen to Toshiba's operating profits in the half to September, or 700 million yen for each one-yen increase in the Japanese currency's value against the dollar.
- 22 Oct 2010:
- Rambus saw its results improve in the third quarter of 2010 thanks to a licensing deal signed earlier this year with former legal opponent Samsung Electronics. It is negotiating to renew deals with Toshiba and Renesas Electronics after their patent licenses expired.
- 20 Oct 2010:Toshiba's operating profits for the April-September period is set to come to more than 100 billion yen (US$1.2 billion), beating the company's forecast of 70 billion yen, according to the Nikkei business daily. Booming global sales of smartphones have boosted demand for the company's flash memory chips and small LCD panels.
- 6 Oct 2010:
- 1 Oct 2010:Toshiba plans to scrap plans to mass-produce OLED panels at its unit Toshiba Mobile Display and focus on high-demand LCD panels instead.
- 16 Sep 2010:
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- Launching custom-made projector LED light sources, shaping up speedy service model
- Sidekick at the 2015 SIA new product showcase in ISC West won award
- Jorjin launch SimpleLink module solutions for Internet of Everything
- AZUL Design provides integrated services for UI/UX and program design in Asia Pacific
- Universal Stylus Initiative launched to create a specification for an active stylus
- AccuTouch Five Wire Resistive Touchscreens
- Getting the Most Out Of Your Next Generation Digital Security Surveillance System
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
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- Digitimes Research: Lenovo smartphone shipments reach only 8-9 million units in 1Q15
- Digitimes Research: China smartphone shipments drop over 30% sequentially in 1Q15 as small regional vendors suffer
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We are going to share the news with you about Ramdev under fire again. This news is getting circulated on the web and gaining people’s attention of the people. According to the report, the Supreme Court warns Patanjatli to ‘stop misleading advertisements claiming false cure or else. This news has made people shocked and curious. Yes, they are curiously searching about the Pantjali to stop misleading advertisements claiming false messages. What happened? What is the entire matter behind the news? Let’s continue the article.
SC cautions Patanjali For False Ads
According to the report, The Supreme Court of India reprimanded Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurveda products and closely asked them to “stop deceptive advertisements”. The apex court mentioned additionally that they will foist “₹1 Crore Cost On Every Product Claiming False Cure”. We all are aware of the products of Ramdev and many people really believe in these products. Many people follow the cure of Ramdev’s product. This is a very sad and shocking news time for those who use these products. Now, there is a big question mark if they had been using the right product. Was it good? We will try to cover all the details of the news.
On the basis of the report, the Supreme Court was listening to petitions filed by the Indian Medical Association, when Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Prashant Kumar Mishra issued a serious warning to the company co-founded by Baba Ramdev. Yes, the company got the warning from Baba-Ramdev. If we talk about the statement it is like “misleading advertisements Patanjali Ayurveda has to stop quickly. The Court will take any similar infringement very seriously, and the Court will also think about impressive costs to the extent of Rs. 1 crores on every product in the connection which is wrong claim is made that it can be prevented, exact disease. We will tell you moreover details about the news.
Furthermore, on the basis of the report, this case became a shocking case for everyone. The bench noticed at the time of the hearing that it did not wish to create the issue of an “Allopathy v. Ayurveda” topic but wanted to search for a real solution to the issue of misleading medical advertisements. We have included all the details about the news, which was important to tell you about the news. If we get any further details about the news we will tell you first at the same site. Stay tuned with us for more updates.


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After a buildup of a year, Apple is extremely anticipated to launch its iPhone 14 in today’s event, which is named “Far Out,” and in this, we might also see other announcements too.
Apple’s event is already got so popular because more than 30,000 are waiting in its scheduled live stream. Here are some details about this event’s timing, where to watch, and what to expect.
Apple “Far Out” Event: Timings & Where To Watch
The “Far Out” event will stream live on Apple’s official YouTube channel today, which is the easiest way for everyone to watch the event. And you can also check this live stream below.
Besides, some leakers suggested that this event would be pre-recorded, but it is not. And this event took place in Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s Cupertino campus, which is happening for the first time after the pandemic.
Also, this event will stream live on its website, and Apple is also making it live on its own Apple TV app so Apple device users will get notifications when it starts. Besides, this is Apple’s third event of the year.
The time for this event is 10:00 a.m. Pacific time. Now let’s discuss what announcement & launch we can get from this event.
First, iPhone 14 will be unveiled at this event, as many reports and Apple’s past launch date are suggesting.
While iPhone 14’s launch is exciting because it comes with many new changes and features after many years, you can check out all these new changes and features in this article.
We might also see Apple Watch Series 8 and the Apple Watch Pro edition. Besides rumors are also coming up that the launch list also includes Apple’s AirPod Max Pro headphones and AirPod Pro 2.
With all that, Apple is also expected to launch this stable version of iOS 16 and iPad OS 16 for all users.


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Lord of the Fries has surfed into paradise
Ethical fast food institution has opened shop in the GC
Lord of the Fries, purveyors of Australia’s favourite fries, and food puns, is excited to open its doors at its first-ever Queensland store
in the sunny Gold Coast’s Surfers Paradise. Following huge demand, the Lords have extended its Australian reign to the sunshine state, bringing its delicious fries with a side of burgers, hot dogs and more to the people of the Gold Coast at its new home on Cavill Avenue.
To celebrate the launch of its first-ever Queensland Store, us Lords are giving away free fries for all between 12-1pm and those coveted ‘bottomless’ chip cups being handed out for lucky passerbys between 2-4pm on Wednesday 15th November.
Lord of the Fries Surfers Paradise marks the franchise’ 17th store with nine locations across Melbourne, three in Sydney, one in Perth and Adelaide and two more in New Zealand.
Leading the way for ethical fast food in Australia and New Zealand, LOTF was founded in 2004 on the premise of food made with love, not animals. Its all-inclusive menu is 100% vegan, with gluten free, kosher and halal options. The menu features locally sourced ingredients and internationally inspired flavours plus burgers, hot dogs, shakes, munch boxes and heroes its award-winning fries; Classic, Shoe String, Chunky and Sweet Potato.
Lord of the Fries is open now and located in the Paradise Centre, Surfers Paradise, QLD, serving seven days a week and late on weekends.


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UK: Westons Cider unveils Henry Westons summer ad push
The ad will in the UK this summer
Westons Cider is giving its “vintage” brand Henry Westons a push with the launch of a new UK ad campaign.
The initiative, starting in June, will include adverts in broadsheet newspapers and online for the 8.2% abv cider, the company said today (5 April). The ad will also feature at next month's Cheltenham Jazz Festival and in supermarkets.
The campaign aims to bring the character of Henry Weston to life, the company said, taking inspiration from Monty Python's Flying Circus and Heath Robinson.
“Henry Westons has been made in the same way for 130 years and this new design reflects our ethos of respecting tradition and how important it is for us to continue to make cider in the traditional way,” added Ian Lewis, Westons' marketing head.
A company spokesperson declined to reveal the total spend on the campaign.
The brand was first launched in 1991 and is available in the UK on- and off-trade.
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Online piracy remains a persistent challenge for publishers, with recent data from the Authors Guild revealing that U.S. publishers lose a staggering $300 million in income each year due to e-book piracy. While this issue is not new, the extent of the financial impact highlights the ongoing struggle publishers face in protecting their intellectual property. Unfortunately, as Forbes pointed out, the problem extends beyond the United States, as countries such as Egypt and the UK also experience significant losses to piracy. As the digital landscape continues to evolve, understanding the factors driving e-book piracy becomes essential for devising effective solutions.
Data presented by the Authors Guild during Book Expo 2019 confirmed the considerable financial ramifications of e-book piracy. A Nielsen consumer survey conducted in 2017 already indicated that $315 million in book sales was lost annually in the United States alone. Additionally, Egypt’s publishing industry suffers a loss of $16.8 million each year, while the UK’s Intellectual Property Office reported that 17 percent of all e-books consumed in 2017, equivalent to 4 million units, were pirated.
Research conducted by the Association of Italian Publishers and the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers highlighted the dire consequences of piracy for the Italian books and newspaper industry. In 2019, the initial study reported an astounding annual loss of €1.3 billion. A subsequent follow-up study in 2021 revealed that book piracy alone cost Italian publishers €771 million in 2021, demonstrating the persistence of this issue. Shockingly, an average of 322,000 acts of book piracy were committed daily in Italy. It’s important to note that these figures do not even include the educational and export sectors, raising concerns about the true extent of piracy’s impact.
Similarly, the Content Overseas Distribution Association, a Tokyo-based watchdog, conducted a study that unveiled the alarming extent of online piracy in the Japanese entertainment industry. Piracy of popular forms of Japanese entertainment, such as manga, anime, and video games, resulted in losses of approximately 2 trillion yen in 2021. This figure represents a five-fold increase from 2019, as reported by Japan Today. The association attributes this significant surge in piracy to two key factors: the increased amount of time people spent at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing adoption of streaming services. These factors are likely to contribute to the ongoing challenge of combating online piracy in the Japanese entertainment sector.
Pinpointing the precise reasons behind e-book piracy is a complex task. In a recent article by The Guardian, some e-book pirates attempted to justify their actions by claiming they only targeted “big-name” authors who, in their opinion, did not require additional income. Others asserted that stealing digital works did not result in the same financial loss as stealing physical books. Some even expressed the belief that culture should be freely accessible to all. Such rationalizations reflect a disconnect between the consequences of piracy and the value attributed to creative works.
The ease with which e-books can be pirated also seems to play a significant role in the prevalence of this issue. Large-scale e-book pirating websites accessible to anyone with an internet connection make it effortless for individuals to obtain unauthorized copies. Many individuals admitted to resorting to piracy during their university years when faced with exorbitant textbook costs. Others, living on limited incomes or facing challenges related to disabilities and mental health, cited difficulties in accessing libraries as reasons for turning to piracy.
The consequences of e-book piracy extend beyond financial losses. Authors frequently find it challenging to continue writing book series that fail to generate profits, and e-book piracy exacerbates this issue. Author Ryan North recently shared an example on Twitter where commenters on a comic book pirating site lamented the cancellation of a series, realizing they could no longer pirate it. Such instances underscore the impact piracy has on authors’ livelihoods and the potential disruption it causes within the publishing industry.
Despite ongoing efforts to combat piracy, e-book infringement remains a pervasive issue. The allure of accessing free content, combined with the ease of pirating digital works, contributes to its persistence. As technology evolves, finding effective solutions to protect intellectual property becomes imperative. Publishers, authors, and industry stakeholders must continue to collaborate on innovative strategies, education campaigns, and improved digital rights management tools to minimize the financial and creative toll of e-book piracy.
With a keen interest in tech, I make it a point to keep myself updated on the latest developments in technology and gadgets. That includes smartphones or tablet devices but stretches to even AI and self-driven automobiles, the latter being my latest fad. Besides writing, I like watching videos, reading, listening to music, or experimenting with different recipes. The motion picture is another aspect that interests me a lot, and I'll likely make a film sometime in the future.


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Elon Musk picks former NBCUniversal exec to be the new CEO of Twitter
- Billionaire Elon Musk has decided to pick Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter.
- Yaccarino was the head of advertising at NBCUniversal.
- Musk will step down from the CEO position and remain as the executive chairman and chief technology officer.
On Thursday, Elon Musk teased on Twitter that he had found his replacement as CEO of Twitter. However, the billionaire did not reveal who he had chosen for the role of Twitter CEO. But now we know who will be running the social platform going forward.
Today, in a congratulatory tweet, Musk revealed that his replacement will be Linda Yaccarino. As he mentions in the tweet, she will take over as CEO and will focus primarily on business operations. Additionally, Musk makes it known that his role with the company will change from CEO to chief technology officer and executive chairman.
I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology.Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app. https://t.co/TiSJtTWuky— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2023
For anyone who’s not familiar with Yaccarino, she formerly was the head of advertising at NBCUniversal. The Penn State graduate helped with the launch of the streaming service Peacock and has led partnerships with a variety of tech companies. These companies include Snapchat, YouTube, and Twitter. Before arriving at NBCUniversal, Yaccarino had worked at Turner Entertainment for 15 years.
According to Yahoo Finance, “Yaccarino repeatedly emphasized in her interview with Musk that what advertisers are looking for from Twitter is protection.” She also reportedly asked Musk if he thought he had “de-risked” Twitter enough to give advertisers confidence their campaigns won’t end up in “awful hateful places.”
Since Musk took over Twitter last year, advertising on the social media platform has dropped significantly. Being one of the main sources of revenue for the site, this has been a big problem. With Yaccarino’s deep background in advertising, she could be well suited for the role of Twitter CEO.


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It’s been four months since Kevin Ackhurst took the helm at Microsoft New Zealand. In that time, he’s bought and renovated a house, and, in six weeks’ time, the Ackhursts will have their first Kiwi child.
Ackhurst, who was appointed to the job after many years with the company in Australia and the US, is adamant he’s in New Zealand for a long haul —at least three years. His aim is to stabilise the leadership of the local business, and develop what he refers to as the “next iteration”.
So what is Ackhurst’s mission? What is he here to achieve? Surely, it’s about increasing revenue and sales?
Ackhurst says he has 32 separate items on his “balanced scorecard” and only two of these are revenue measures.
“Thirty other things are part of that scorecard,” he says.
These include “citizenship elements”, including engagement with the media. Five out of the 32 are measures of customer and partner satisfaction.
Then there are measures relating to the capability of Microsoft’s people, and their morale.
“Almost all of the rest relate to innovation,” he says.
Ackhurst says that the business has reached “a certain level” since Microsoft set up shop here in 1991. His efforts, in what is considered to be a mature market, will be focused on building relationships, building the organisation and on corporate social responsibility.
This involves exploring the benefits that technology can bring to citizens, to business, to health and to government, he says.
This, in turn, involves a level of learning and engagement. And it takes time, he says. He is currently busy meeting and consulting, with customers and partners, and, increasingly, stepping out when it comes to public speaking roles.
Ackhurst also says he wants to be very clear about the focus of Microsoft’s citizenship activities.
These will first centre on productivity and second on skills. New Zealand is still struggling to attract women into IT, and also to reflect the diversity of the general population in the industry, he says.
“There’s an opportunity to raise the level of skill and to attract others to the industry,’ he says. But he quickly adds that he doesn’t want to be a lone voice. He would like to be joined in this by other industry leaders, such as Sun’s John Mazenier, Gen-i’s Chris Quin and IBM’s Katrina Troughton.
Citizenship aside, there is still opportunity for business growth, Ackhurst insists. While Microsoft’s core technologies — most prominently, its operating systems and Office applications — have high penetration rates here, many other products don’t, and that represents an opportunity, he says.
Ackhurst also seems inspired by the many announcements coming out of the US recently: about the company opening up some of its technologies and delivering development tools to campuses, as well as announcements concerning web applications — not to mention the launch of Windows Server 08, which will kick-in locally soon.
He says recent price cuts to consumer versions of Vista are about offering New Zealand consumers the best possible deal. He adds that managing prices has been difficult because of New Zealand’s volatile exchange rate.
However, the cuts don’t apply to business versions of the software, as the business market is about volume-licensing and price is only one component of an enterprise deal, alongside support and development among other things, he says.
Ackhurst cites two key challenges he needs to address in New Zealand: building long-term, sustainable relationships with government, and building relationships with key players and bodies in the ICT community.
He concedes that Microsoft’s relationship with government is not what it needs to be.
Last year, Microsoft took out several full-page advertisements, aimed at influencing New Zealand’s standards vote on the Office Open XML file format.
Is this an example of the company failing to build direct relationships with government and industry?
“I’m not sure that’s how you do it, with all due respect to my predecessors,” he says. “Influencing government requires effort and time.”
Ackhurst adds that relationships with the 10,000 partners that Microsoft New Zealand does business with are also vital — to ensure they are profitable and can also provide a great service.


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Jeff Bewkes Starts Cleaning House at Time WarnerMEDIA
• At least 75 Time Warner layoffs are expected to be announced today. The layoffs are among CEO Jeff Bewkes’s first public tasks since taking the helm of the company from Dick Parsons last month. Earlier today, Time Warner announced a 41 percent decline in fourth-quarter earnings. [MSNBC & AdAge]
• Maybe some of those Time Warner folks can hang their hats over at Condé Nast. The Observer evaluates Portfolio’s recent spending spree, during which it recruited top talent from The New Yorker, the Post, and the Times. [NYO]
• (Product)Red, the love child of Bono, iPod, and the Gap, has raised more than $22 million for fighting HIV and AIDS in Africa. But considering the big advertising bucks spent during the Super Bowl and elsewhere, some are arguing that it’s not enough. [NYT]
First You Save the Company, Then You Play GolfFINANCE
• Bear Stearns CEO Jim Cayne rewarded himself for firing the firm’s second-in-command by playing his first round of golf in almost three weeks. [NYP]
• Fidelity CEO Edward Johnson’s uncertain succession plan claimed another victim as Ellyn McColgan, a longtime exec and onetime heir apparent, got fed up and stepped down. [NYT]
• Were the threats against Goldman Sachs “Hundreds will die. We are inside. You cannot stop us.” just a prank by three teenage kids? [Newsday]
All These People Wore Khakis
On Monday the Gap — you know, that ubiquitous purveyor of khakis and pocket T-shirts you stopped shopping at sometime in college — fired its chief executive, Paul Pressler, after it decided he couldn’t turn around the flailing brand. As the company searches for a new direction, we sent an intrepid New York reporter to the enormous Fifth Avenue store in midtown to chat with shoppers on their way out and see what advice New Yorkers have for the retailing giant.
Lloyd Grove Gives to Panhandlers, Won’t Settle for Less Than 600 Thread Count
Name: Lloyd Grove
Age: None of your damned business
Job: Unemployed gossip columnist
Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Geraldo Rivera, who fits all of the above categories.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York?
The grilled calamari at Gennaro, washed down with a bottle of Sangiovese.
What’s the one-sentence explanation of what you actually do all day in your job?
Ruining lives and destroying reputations when not hawking products and creating temporary stars.


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PC and printer manufacturer HP Inc. is the latest tech company to announce layoff plans, reporting Tuesday it will eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 jobs over the next three years. That represents up to 10% of HP’s 61,000 worldwide employees.
The Silicon Valley company said sales in its computing business were down 13% last quarter and its printing revenue was down 7%. And HP said it doesn’t expect better results anytime soon.
“We think that at this point it’s prudent not to assume that the market will turn during 2023,” CEO Enrique Lores told The Wall Street Journal.
HP has a research and manufacturing hub in Corvallis and an engineering and administrative office in Vancouver. The company won’t say how many work at either site.
The company is preparing to build a new research campus in Vancouver, which it plans to open in 2026. And HP said last month it will return some manufacturing jobs to Corvallis from overseas if it can win a share of the federal CHIPS Act subsidies the Biden administration plans to begin awarding early next year.
HP declined to say if the cutbacks announced Tuesday will affect those plans. The company began furloughing contract workers in its Corvallis printer supply factory last summer, citing low demand.
While the broader labor market remains robust, the tech industry is cutting jobs as demand falls amid a cooling global economy and it becomes clear that changes in consumer behavior that accompanied the pandemic won’t persist.
Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and many other large tech companies have all laid off workers in recent weeks. Intel, Oregon’s largest corporate employer, is cutting an unspecified number of jobs in response to a severe decline in sales.
Update: This article has updated with HP’s current global headcount.
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NEW DELHI: Online taxi hailing app Uber
has signed an agreement with the Army Welfare Placement Organisation
) under the Ministry of Defence
to create thousands of entrepreneurial opportunities for ex-servicemen and women on its platform, the company informed in a media release.
“At AWPO, we believe everyone who has served our country deserves the dignity to be able to support themselves when they return to the civilian workforce. That’s why we’re proud to be working with Uber to extend flexible, well paid work to thousands of our ex-service members, said Major General Deepak Sapra
, MD, AWPO.
Amit Jain, President of Uber India
, said: “At Uber, we understand that members of our armed forces are some of the nation’s most talented, committed and skilled people. It is our honour to extend our hand and provide access to opportunities for entrepreneurship and empowerment on the Uber platform.”
As part of this agreement, AWPO will refer potential ex-servicemen who wish to become driver-partners on to the Uber platform.
Uber, in return will create driver partner opportunities for 1,00,000+ ex-servicemen and women on its platform through AWPO referrals.